Where east
meets west
The
Greenwich Meridian separates east from west in the same way that the Equator
separates north from south. Inextricably linked with Greenwich Mean Time, it
also sits at the Centre of our system of time zones. Its path is determined by
the location of an historic telescope, the Airy Transit Circle, which is housed
at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Such is the
Meridian's fame that each year, hundreds of thousands of visitors from all
around the world make their way to the Observatory to stand astride the Line.
But its
position is marked in hundreds of other places too. On its path from pole to
pole, the Meridian passes through England, France, Spain, Algeria, Mali,
Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana and Antarctica.
http://www.thegreenwichmeridian.org/
